................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. > Then, on August 10th, came a note from Apple engineering staff to the > QuickTime VR mailing list saying that "IE 5.5 SP2 [for > Windows] will not > use the QuickTime plug-in no matter what you do. Microsoft > has disabled > all 'Netscape style' plug-ins, there is nothing you can do. Look for > information from us about how work around this problem in the near > future." Soooo microsoftish... I've _already_ had a lot of problems getting Quicktime plugin work in IE/Windows. It doesn't seem to be the fault of the plugin: Windows (or IE) just seems to "forget" all the time, that it should show certain media formats with Quicktime... Annoying... QT plugin is great for example playing mp3's straight in the browser window. Handy. > does media player play quicktime? Just tried to play our QT video on WM player 6.4. Didn't work (http://http.se.scene.org/pub/demos/scene.org/music/groups/commie/commie041- ddr_rhythm-potsdam_by_night.mov). > or realmedia? Nope. I think it goes this way: RealPlayer: shows Real and (older) QT Windows Media Player: shows Windows Media and (older) QT Quicktime: shows QT So, QT has basically the biggest coverage. But in practice, the versions of Windows Media Player I've used, never succeed to show QT, although they try to... > in > my limited > experience on streaming stuff on the net, it's either > realmedia, mp3 or > quicktime. and some few sites have alternative windows media -streams > too. Yeah, but M$ is trying hard to conquer the streaming video scene with its own format. Probably they're thinking: "We succeeded to conquer the browser scene, why couldn't we succeed to take over the media scene, now?" > Galeon? it uses Mozilla's Gecko-engine but has a lot lighter GUI than > mozilla. fast, quite stable good browser -> > http://galeon.sourceforge.net/] Nope. Linux stuff.... ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo." - The Holy Mad Cow http://www.holymadcow.org
